The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 40

It seemed to come from the barrel which was bobbing about near the water’s edge.

Who acts: It, barrel · What happens: seem, come, bob · To what, where: barrel, edge

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, barrel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 come	mark
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	xcomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 barrel	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 barrel	det
7	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 bobbing	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bobbing	aux
10	bobbing	bob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 barrel	acl:relcl
11	about	about	ADV	_	10 bobbing	advmod
12	near	near	ADP	_	16 edge	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 edge	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 water	case
16	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bobbing	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	come	to-infinitive		the barrel		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from barrel=Initial_Location
3	bob	past · progressive	the barrel	the water's edge	about property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near edge=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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